Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-12-10

world always gone smoothly with youp
Has it ever pursued you with SANDER?
Is your health always goodp Have
your fortunes never perishedP Are
your children all alive and well? Is
there one dead lamb in the fold? Are
you ignorant of the way to the ceme-
terry? Have you ever heard the bell
toll when it seemed as if every stroke
OF the iron clapper beat your heart?
Are the skies AS bright when you look
into them as they used to be when
other eyes, now closed, used to look
into lhem? Is there some trunk or
drawer in your house that you 90 to
only on anniversary days, when there
comes
BEATING AGAINST rOUR SOUL
the surf of a great ocean OF agony? II
is the cave of Adullam! The cave Of
Adullam. Is there some David here
whose fatherly heart wayward Absa,om
has broken? Is there some Abraham
here who is lonely because Sarah is
dead in the family plot OF Machpeahp
After thirty or forty years of compan-
ionship. how hard it was for them to
part! Why not have two seats in the
Lords chariot, SO tdat both the old
folks might have gone up at oncep My
aged mother, in her last moment, said
10 my father, Father. wouldn't it be
nice if we could both 90 t~ogetherp'
No, no, no. We must part. And
there are wounded hearts here to-day.
The world cannot comfort you. What
can 1t bring you9 Nothing. Nothing.
The salve they try 10 pu: on their
wounds will not stick. They cannot,
with their bungling surgery, mend the
the broken bones.
Zoppar, the Naamathite. and Bildad,
the Shuhite, and Etiphaz, the Temanite,
come in, and talk, and talk, and talk,
but miserable comforters are they all.
They can not pour light into the cave
OF Aduilam. They can not bring a SIN
gle draught OF water from 1.-the well Of
Bethlehem, which is by the gate" Bat
glory be to Jesus Christ. there is COM
at the gate! There is life in the
well at the gate. If you give ME time,
l. VIII aldW up
A PROMISE
for every man, woman and child in
this house. Ay, | will do it in two
minutes. l willlay hold of the rope Of
the old well. What is your tIouble?
you say, II am so sick. SO weary
OF life ailments after ailments" /
will draw up q promise: "The in
habitants shall never say i am sick"
What is your trouble? '.Oh, it is loss
Of friends--bereavement," you say.
will draw you up a promise, fresh and
cool, out of the well: IL am the resur-
-ec,ion and the life; he that believeth
n Me, though he were dead, yet shall
ne live" What is your troublep You
lay it is the intirmilies of old age. |
will draw you up a promise: down
o old age ! am with thee, to hoary
lairs will l carry thee" What is your
roubleP 'Oh,' you say, Il have a
widowed soul, and my children cry for
bread" 1 bring up this promises:
Leave thy fatherless children-I will
them alive, and let thy widows
rust in me-" l break through the
armed ranks of your sorrows to-day,
nd bring to your parched lips "a
rink of the water OF the well of Beth
chem, which is by the gate"
THE sKErTIC's HEAVEN.
Again. the gospel well is at the gate
# heaven. ] have not heard yet one
intelligent account of the future
world from anybody who does not be-
ieve in the Bible. They throw such a
og about the subject that do not want !
o 60 to the skeptic's heaven, TO the
ranscendentalist's heaven, to the
PHILOSOPHERS heaven.
would not exchange the poorest room
n your house for the finest heaven that {
1uxlev. or Stuart Mill, or Dargin ever
of. Their heaven has no
Christ in it; and a heaven without !
though you could sweep the
Whole universe into it, would be a hell! J
)h, they tell 8 there are no songs
here; there are no coronations in ,
is all Imagination. They !,
ell us we will do there about what we
10 here, only on a larger scale
with clearer intellect; and
With alpenstock 60 clambering up over
he icebergs in an eternal vacation.
than that, | turn to my Bible,
nd | find Johns picture Of that good
heaven which was your
lullaby in infancy-that heaven which f.,
'ur children in the Sabbath school will
ing about this atternoon-that heaven
which has a "well st the gate"
After you have been on a long jour
ley, and you come in all bedusted and
ired to your home, the first thing you I
want is refreshing ablution; and l am
,lad to know that after we get through
he pilgrimage of this world--the hard,
rilgrimage-we will find
A WELL AT THE GATE.
In that n wash, away will 60 our
and sorrows. | do not care
whether cherub, or seraph, or my own
friends in that blessed land
to my lips the cup, the touch of
hat cup will be life, will be heavenl j
vas reading Of how the ancients sought
or the fountain OF perpetual youth.
They thought ifthoy could only find and
rink ont of that well, the old would
young again, the sick would be